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Drink coffee… live longer!

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: June 18, 2008
HT: Josephine Marcotty, StarTribune.com Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health studied the histories of 125,000 men and women who reported how much coffee they drank between 1980 and 2004. The more coffee they drank, the less likely they were to die from a heart attack or cardiovascular disease. That was especially true for women. Compared [...]
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I, rubato

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: May 14, 2008
HT: Dee-Ann Durbin (AP) for the post title [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5KbRwHg6zA] Honda robot conducts Detroit Symphony to warm response DETROIT (AP) — The lights dimmed, the sold-out hall grew hushed and out walked the conductor – shiny, white, 4 feet 3 inches tall. ASIMO, a robot designed by Honda Motor Co., met its latest challenge Tuesday evening: Conducting the Detroit Symphony [...]
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